While Solange Knowles Had the Wedding of the Year, Kourtney Kardashian Was Stuck at IHOP

While Beyoncé’s sister Solange had the year’s most stylish wedding yesterday, another semi-famous sister of a very famous woman had a special occasion. Kourtney Kardashian, eldest of the Kardashian klan and co-star of a spin-off reality series, is pregnant with her third child, and had a baby shower yesterday. Where did she have it? At the IHOP. Yup. The IHOP. A rooty-tooty fresh ’n fruity baby shower. So Solange was dressed up like a member of the Organa family, having a super-cool party in New Orleans, and Kourtney Kardashian was at the dang IHOP in her long johns. Isn’t that so fitting somehow?

Well, O.K., to be fair, this was Kourtney’s second baby shower. She already had one last week that was much fancier, at a hotel in Beverly Hills. But still. The younger Knowles got to be all fashionable and take over Twitter yesterday with her hip, cool wedding, while the older Kardashian got to order lukewarm silver-dollar pancakes and get her hands sticky with boysenberry syrup. Doesn’t seem quite fair!

I’m sure that this little IHOP excursion, presented as a pajama party with Kourtney and her friends, was sponsored in some way. I mean, I don’t think that family does much of anything unless they’re being paid in some capacity to do it. (“I only tinkle in a Toto toilet,” they are required to say every time they go to the bathroom, even if there’s no one around to hear them.) So I’m sure this IHOP trip made them a little money, or at the very least was subsidized. I mean, I really hope they got comped at IHOP for having a baby shower there. Not that the Kardashians can’t afford it, but jeez. What other reason would you have for throwing a baby shower at IHOP? I’m not knocking IHOP. It’s a good place to eat some food, but usually when it’s three in the morning and you’re trying to soak up the gin fizzes, or it’s noon and a hangover requires pigs ’n blankets. (Though, it must be said, last time I was at IHOP, they did not have pigs ’n blankets on the menu, which is an outrage. I realize you can just order pancakes and sausage and then roll the sausages up in the pancakes, but it’s not the same.) It’s not exactly elegant baby-shower food, is what I’m saying. So I hope this was all some sort of promo stunt.

No matter what this party really was, the fact remains that while Solange Knowles stunned the certain part of the world that cares about her with her all-white outfits and striking wedding photography, Kourtney Kardashian and friends were drinking bottomless pots of coffee and building little towers out of creamers at the International House of Pancakes. And any way you slice that pancake, it’s clear the Knowles family won the day. So put it up on the board. The Kardashians may have won most of last week, but Sunday, November 16, went decisively to the the other Ks.